We already have the technology to send trains into space, at a fraction of the cost of rockets
This is Startram, a proposed launch system that would use magnetic levitation trains, a 1000-mile tunnel, and a superconducting cable to reach low Earth orbit. Amazingly, we already have the technology to do it…at far less than the cost of rockets. Gizmag has a great overview of how Startram would work, but the basic idea…
